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Friday, 16 December 2016

Jews protest major Jewish organizations’ Hanukkah party at Trump’s D.C. hotel
(Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post)

Americans overestimate the percentage of Muslims in the U.S. by 16 points, study says
(Greg Hadley, Miami Herald)

Indiana town upset after ACLU helps remove cross from public property
(Nina Golgowski, Huffington Post)

Some evangelicals question whether they have overlooked the rural church
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post)

Advice from Godless Europe: Swedish Catholics & the American Church
(David Michael, Commonweal)

American pastor imprisoned in Turkey on 'terror threat' charges for Christian faith
(Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post)

Dylann Roof convicted of all counts in church slaughter
(Jeffrey Collins and Meg Kinnard, The Associated Press)

Dylann Roof made lists of South Carolina churches before attack: testimony
(Harriet McLeod, Reuters)

Tech employees vow not to help Trump surveil Muslims, deport immigrants
(Dustin Volz, Reuters)

Orthodox leaders reject claim of haredi population crisis in Israel
(Ariel Ben Solomon, Jewish News Service)

Chinese Muslim website blocked after Xi Jinping letter
(Al Jazeera)

Egypt: USCIRF condemns terrorist attack at Coptic cathedral; urges protection for community and end to impunity
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Kazakhstan: Pensioners fined for praying with pensioners
(Forum 18 News Service)

Kyrgyzstan: No grave, no prosecutions over twice-exhumed Christian
(Forum 18 News Service)

Firing clerk who refused to process same-sex marriage licenses did not violate Title VII
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

How the Hasids won the Battle of Bloomingburg — and everyone else lost
(Josh Nathan-Kazis, Forward)

Voting fraud indictments are latest in battle over Hasidic development in NY town
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Conservatives drill down on Exxon's Tillerson
(Tony Perkins, Washington Update)

Evangelical leader opposes Trump's choice for Secretary of State
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Sterling Heights faces federal lawsuit over denial of zoning approval for mosque
(Derick Hutchinson, Click on Detroit)

Justice Department files suit against Sterling Heights, Michigan, over denial of zoning approval for a mosque
(Press Release, U.S. Department of Justice)

U.S. sues Sterling Heights, Michigan over zoning denial for mosque
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Remarks by the President at afternoon Hanukkah reception
(Office of the Press Secretary, The White House)

President hosts Hanukkah receptions
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Swiss high court blocks effort to ban state-funded Islamic center
(Reuters, Daily Sabah)

Swiss court says anti-Muslim referendum is invalid
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Judge orders 'Charlie Brown Christmas' display restored at Texas school
(Mike Ward, Houston Chronicle)

Victory: Christmas poster can stay up, says Court
(David Walls, Texas Values)

Court allows Peanuts Christmas poster to go back up, with minor change
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Charlie Brown Christmas poster can’t come back, Texas school board votes
(Ryan Osborne, Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

Texas school district nixes Charlie Brown Christmas poster
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Court invalidates Louisiana executive order barring LGBT discrimination
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

John Bel Edwards' LGBT protections declared unlawful
(Julia O'Donoghue, New Orleans Times Picayune)

Burma's Rohingya Muslims speak of massacres and rape as government denies genocide
(Lizzie Dearden, The Independent)

Thursday, 15 December 2016

Euthanasia and palliative sedation are distinct concepts – intent matters
(Xavier Symons, The Conversation)

Religion and education around the world
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)

Key findings on how world religions differ by education
(Carlyle Murphy, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)

Charity Commission clarifies new powers
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Commission gives further clarity to its approach to using new powers
(Charity Commission for England and Wales, Gov.UK)

Trump’s surprise election tops religion news stories of 2016
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)

Turkey’s constitutional overhaul
(The Economist)

Newman Society, Christian leaders launch statement for religious freedom
(The Cardinal Newman Society)

Religious rights in a pluralistic world
(Canadian Baha’i News Service)

In quest for equal rights, Muslim women win right to enter sacred Indian tomb
(Bhavya Dore, Religion News Service)

2016 Religious Freedom Project Fellows: Findings from the Field
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Crisis of religious freedom (Responding to 2016 Religious Freedom Project Fellows: Findings from the Field)
(Gabrielle Girgis, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Religious institutions and associational freedom in U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence (Responding to 2016 Religious Freedom Project fellows: Findings from the Field)
(Deborah O'Malley, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Does religious identity matter for economic outcomes? (Responding to 2016 Religious Freedom Project Fellows: Findings from the Field)
(Muzna Fatima Alvi, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Libya is a test of whether the jihadists of Islamic State can adapt
(The Economist)

The Supreme Court case that could bankrupt religious schools and hospitals
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)

When is a heartbeat not a heartbeat? When NPR (briefly) calls it 'sounds from the fetus'
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Google is not ‘just’ a platform. It frames, shapes and distorts how we see the world
(Carole Cadwalladr, The Guardian)

Banning extremist groups is more political symbolism than effective counter-terrorism
(Lee Jarvis and Tim Legrand, The Conversation)

Parents' complaints about religious education at North Otago school prompts review
(NZHerald.co.nz)

Air Force officers can’t grow beard on religious grounds, says SC
(The Hindu)

This small business owner didn’t want to make shirts for gay pride festival. Now he’s in court.
(Leah Jessen, The Daily Signal)

Here are 7 times Texas officials have fought over Christmas
(Bobby Blanchard, The Texas Tribune)

Images from Aleppo: How the world closed its eyes to Syria's horror
(Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times)

After siege, Aleppo's famed Umayyad Mosque is damaged but endures
(Laila Bassam, Reuters)

Justice Department sues over mosque permit denial in Virginia
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC blog))

Religious liberty expert: Mosque lawsuit against Culpeper County 'full of smoking guns'
(Allison Brophy, Fredericksburg.com)

"We don't have enough proof": Pizzagate as epistemological panic
(Spencer Dew, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)

Nepal’s new constitution outlaws evangelism
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)

Wednesday, 14 December 2016

Man gets 20-year sentence for hate crimes
(Rick Rojas, The New York Times)

Muslim woman made up hate crime on subway, police say
(Christopher Mele, The New York Times)

Muslim student filed bias crime report to avoid curfew punishment
(Rocco Parascandola, Leonard Greene, New York Daily News)

How Iraq's PMU law is disrupting national unity efforts
(Omar Sattar trans. Cynthia Milan, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Crèche clash
(Mark Movsesian, First Things)

Russian Church has built and restored only half of churches existed before revolution
(Interfax-Religion)

Priest refuses to set up nativity scene for fear of offending Muslims
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)

Was Muslims Like Us a helpful portrayal of Islam in the UK?
(Miqdaad Versi, Remona Aly, and Alia Bano, The Guardian)

France will soon have a new crime: online obstruction of abortion
(Tom Heneghan, Religion News Service)

Texas Catholic cemeteries offer to bury fetal remains at no cost
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)

Another court hearing, but no end in sight for Iranian Christian converts
(World Watch Monitor)

If you don’t get’ religion, you can’t ‘get’ America or the world
(David French, National Review)

Ohio’s new abortion bill is a sign of battles to come
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)

Catholic church gets back into business in Czech Republic
(Karel Janicek, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Popular Chinese Muslim website down after posting letter critical of Xi
(Christian Shepherd, Reuters)

Oklahoma court tosses abortion law on hospital privileges
(Ken Miller, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Ohio Gov. John Kasich vetoes Heartbeat Bill, signs 20-week abortion ban
(Randy Ludlow, The Columbus Dispatch)

Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa are twice as likely as Christians to have no formal education
(David McClendon, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)

Study shows the U.S. attracts an elite Muslim and Hindu population
(National Public Radio)

Russia's Communist Party turns to the Orthodox Church
(Mansur Mirovalev, Al Jazeera)

Nigeria: tensions persist after Zaria mass killings
(Katrin Gänsler, Reuters, AFP)

Europeans greatly overestimate Muslim population, poll shows
(Pamela Duncan, The Guardian)

Germans greatly overestimate number of Muslims living in their country, study finds
(Deutsche Welle)

Italy’s Muslims celebrate Christmas to calm integration fears
(Barbie Latza Nadeau, The Daily Beast)

Religion drives skepticism about evolution, but not climate change
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)

Why some of Europe’s least religious countries are shaped by politicians’ Christian faith
(Rick Noack, The Washington Post)

Sharansky, MKs against Shas bill criminalizing pluralist prayer at Western Wall
(Jeremy Sharon, Jerusalem Post)

What religion was Jesus? Facts about Christ before Christianity began
(Tom O'Connor, International Business Times)

Blasphemy trial tests pluralism in mostly Muslim Indonesia
(Sara Schonhardt and Anita Rachman, Wall Street Journal)

Chief Justice Moore files with selected panel of Alabama Supreme Court
(Press Release, Liberty Counsel)

Alabama's CJ Roy Moore files brief in appeal of his suspension
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

KC church wins court victory in sign of the times
(Dan Margolies, KCUR 89.3)

Court grants variance to allow digital church sign
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

“Sometimes journalists can step in when police and government fail.”
(Abigail Frymann Rouch, LapidoMedia: Centre for Religious Literacy in Journalism)

How a British scribe's study of Islam helped explain Pakistani immigrant gangs' sex crimes
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)

What fuels fake news? Major Tennessee newspapers pledge to oppose 'anti-LGBT' bills
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Former ambassador: Trudeau’s de-emphasis on religion in foreign policy leaves Canada with ‘blind spot’
(Steve Weatherbe, Life Site News)

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